m A VISIT TO THE IXDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



mm to needless danger, either from tlio climate or from 

 the eEomy nor is less credit due to him on tliia 

 gi-omid, although the circmnstance be immediately attn- 

 bu table to the panic which seiKed the enemy ; inasmuch 

 as, if an officer makes such arrangements for receiving an 

 expected enemy, far outnumbering Ma own force, as to 

 prtyduee such a panic, the residt iu their total defeat 

 without loss to himself is as much to his credit as any 

 other operation of war can be. The practice of the great 

 man whom the nation now mourns and honours was 

 ever this, — to effect his purposes with the least possible 

 sacrifice of his soldiers' lives ; nor will I waste a line upon 

 those who make it a reproach to kill the viper without 

 stinging oneself. 



Commander Farquhar received the approval of hiss 

 superiors in the most acceptable shape, — pi'omotion ; to 

 wliich was added the approval of the respective Heads 

 of the Foreign and Colonial offices* 



" You will inform the Lords Commissioners of the 

 Admiralty that Iler ^lajosty's Government entirely 

 approve of this gallant and successful operation. 



" Viscoimt Pauieestok cannot but hope that iJie 

 etiergfJiic measures of fepremon^ and the prudent arrange- 

 ments for future prevention, which are detailed in Sir 

 F. Collier's despatch, wiU have tho effect of affording to 

 peaceful commerce in those quarters that security of 

 which it has hithcito been deprived by the aggression of 

 piratiea! fleets," 



